3 selective adjustment tools your raw files can’t live without

Graduated Filter

The Graduated Filter lets you plot a gradient over an area then change the tones. As well as altering exposure, you can also make useful tweaks to things like white balance, sharpness and colour saturation.

What’s more, you can set more than one gradient, which makes it easy to change different areas or create a retro film-style border as we’ve done here.

Graduated Filter tips

Hold Shift while dragging a gradient to keep it perfectly horizontal, vertical or at a 45 degree angle.

Click on a gradient to alter any of the adjustment settings, or hit Delete to remove it.